I'm just going to be real, I don't know how much of the time this occurs. But for context, I play on oceania servers. I've peaked immortal for the last two seasons and just played a few games today. In all of those games there was a female gamer in my team that was too scared to talk or communicate at high elo (which at high you elo you need comms) because or past experiences or just like actual toxic team mates. I love banter as much as anybody else but I feel like the toxicity around gamer girls playing in val is just next level. At high elo everyone has a ego I get that and I solo queue all the fucking time so it's understandable that things get heated sometimes but if you're a girl at that elo and you can frag + com + use utility well despite what the scoreboard says there shouldn't be people in the community trying to discourage other people. If you wanna climb ranks it's mainly team work that gets you up there especially when you solo queue, you gotta encourage people to play at their best and even if ur down 11-1, there's still a chance to making a epic comeback for the satisfaction of it. Point is: don't be a douchebag to female gamers, because if they end up in ur ranked up game. You don't wanna tilt them to the point of losing that game.